{L: looking from the purple room, bath to L, door on R leads to the 4th bedroom}

{R: the 'big blue room'}

{big blue room. you can see the 'red roof house' out the window}

{the door swings closed and there is a fun string to change the fan speed...}

{the 'little blue room' will become the office}

{the 'little blue room' is little - but it will work perfectly for what we need.}

{looking into the living room from the hall}

{L: looking into the master from the hallway}

{R: master has nice tall ceilings and gets nice, but not direct, light}

{the other side of the master. door on L goes into bath, door on R goes into the hall}

{looking into the master bath}

{door on far L is the water closet, door in the middle is one of two closets!}

{again, no towel bars or toilet paper holder in here.}

{L: water closet and one of the His & Hers closets}

{R: the other closet and the shower, door on R goes back into the bedroom}

{the nice big vanity with two sinks! and weirdly placed outlets}

{and more medicine cabinets that are just screwed onto the wall, not sunken in}

{and the backyard. we have a little covered area with a ceiling fan}

{back of the house. window on L is in the kitchen. bay window is the dining area. door and window inside the covered area is the living room, window on R is the master bath.}

{another view. we hope to fence in the yard sooner than later.}

{the yard slopes up in the back, but we have quite a bit of flat space. and the slope actually gives us more privacy from the neighbors behind us. the building on the R of this picture is a service center for a telephone/internet company. the service people get their supplies from the building, so it doesn't see too much traffic. we plan to plant trees to help hide it a bit.}

So the inside is pretty much brown box after brown box, followed up by a couple bright blue boxes and one purple one. I mentioned this in a previous post, but this house was a forclosure. There are some things that were ignored, some of those "what were they thinking?" moments, but still an opportunity to make our new house a home.

It's been two and half weeks since we closed. {has it really only been that long?!} A lot of progress has been made already and I'm excited to share it with you. I'll share some more pictures soon.

Have to give my parents a huge shout-out here... they just spent a week making some of our dreams a reality and I can't even being to imagine how long it would have taken us without their help. We could never express our gratitude enough!

So obviously the lack of posting has to do with the fact we've been spending all our time either at work, at the new house, working on wedding planning, or in bed - very little time for anything extra. :)